Christianity Today's 100 most spiritually significant books of the 20th century

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Christianity Today asked more than 100 of its contributors and church leaders to nominate the ten best religious books of the twentieth century. By best books, we meant those that not only were important when first published, but also have enduring significance for the Christian faith and church. We have included books which do not always prompt agreement, but which are important for evangelical Christians to read and contend with. A few "period" pieces also made the list of 90.

By far, C. S. Lewis was the most popular author and Mere Christianity the book nominated most often. Indeed, we could have included even more Lewis works, but finally we had to say: "Enough is enough; give some other authors a chance."

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  1. 1.
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  2. 2.
    Mere Christianity
    by C.S. Lewis
  3. 3.
    The Chronicles of Narnia
    by C.S. Lewis
  5. 5.
  6. 6.
    The Politics of Jesus
    by John Howard Yoder
  7. 7.
    Orthodoxy (Dodo Press)
    by G. K. Chesterton
  8. 8.
    The Seven Storey Mountain
    by Thomas Merton
  9. 9.
    Celebration of Discipline
    by Richard Foster
  10. 10.
    ?
    My Utmost for His Highest
    by Incorporated Barbour Publishing
  12. 12.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe
  13. 13.
    Big Book Awakening - 12 Step Guide Book
    by Awakening
  14. 14.
    Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
    by Roland H. Bainton
  15. 15.
    The Epistle to the Romans
    by Karl Barth
  16. 16.
    The Denial of Death
    by Ernest Becker
  17. 17.
  18. 18.
    The Diary of a Country Priest: A Novel
    by Georges Bernanos
  19. 19.
    Letters and Papers from Prison
    by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  21. 21.
    The Prophetic Imagination, 2nd Edition
    by Walter Brueggemann
  22. 22.
    ?
    Truth As Encounter
    by H. E. Brunner
  23. 23.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus
  24. 24.
    The Case for Orthodox Theology
    by Edward J. Carnell
  25. 25.
  27. 27.
    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
    by Annie Dillard
  28. 28.
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    Documents of Vatican II
    by Austin P. Flannery
  29. 29.
    The Souls of Black Folk (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by W. E. B. Du Bois
  30. 30.
    Four Quartets
    by T. S. Eliot
  31. 31.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison
  32. 32.
    The Technological Society
    by Jacques Ellul
  33. 33.
    The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition
    by Anne Frank
  34. 34.
    Man's Search for Meaning
    by Viktor E. Frankl
  35. 35.
    Civilization and Its Discontents
    by Sigmund Freud
  36. 36.
    Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure
    by Langdon Gilkey
  37. 37.
  39. 39.
    Black Like Me
    by John Howard Griffin
  45. 45.
    God, Revelation and Authority (6 Volume Set)
    by Carl F. H. Henry
  46. 46.
    Hiroshima (Vintage)
    by John Hersey
  47. 47.
    The Prophets (Perennial Classics)
    by Abraham J. Heschel
  48. 48.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  49. 49.
    The Varieties of Religious Experience
    by William James
  50. 50.
    The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
    by Franz Kafka

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Created by Susan Reed on Sep 26, 2006.
 

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crimeandpunishment

Untitled — 4 years ago

wrong “Hiroshima”

fixed…

May 14, 09:58AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

djsiah

... — 5 years ago

Who in the world came up with this list?!

Dec 30, 09:16PM | 2 comments | Reply to this



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